Thu 13 Dec 2007
Rev. Jesse Jackson and other U.S. civil rights leaders converged on Wall Street on Monday to demand the government and the financial community step up aid to stem a home-loan foreclosure crisis.
At a rally in lower Manhattan, activists said homeowners needed more help to restructure their loans and avoid losing their houses.
“We’re standing to stop an economic tsunami,” Jackson told a crowd of more than 200 people. “Our government has an obligation, not only to borrowers but to the economy itself.”